THE ARTS SOCIETY THE HAGUE

Most kindly invites you to join us for our Special Event

Friday 11th October 2024 at 11.00* hrs.

Wassily Kandinsky - A Retrospective

At the H´ART Museum, Amsterdam in

collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Paris

* meetup at the museum at 10.45.

The Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered one of the pioneers of abstract art.

More than 60 of Kandinsky's works have most generously been lent to the H´ART museum by the famous Parisian Museum 'Centre Pompidou'.

This selection gives us an overview of his artistic development from his early figurative art to his well-known abstract paintings.

The highlight in this exhibition is the reconstruction of the Salon de Réception of the Juryfreie exhibition in Berlin 1922.  (This installation was reconstructed for the opening of Centre Pompidou in 1977.)  It is an octagonally shaped area with walls several meters high, painted in hues of brown and black, upon which the artist created paintings in a multitude of colours.

Kandinsky had moved from Russia to Munich in 1896 at the age of 30 years to follow a course in the art of painting.  Being Russian he was forced to leave Germany at the outbreak of WW1.  He returned to Germany in 1921 and became a teacher at the Bauhaus, Weimar – the first modernistic art school in the world, where he stayed until 1933 when the nazi regime closed Bauhaus.  Kandinsky and his wife had to move again, this time to Paris.

The two other pioneers of abstract art Malevitsj and Mondriaan developed and produced artworks of a certain 'purity' whereas Kandinsky, having abandoned figurative art, as had his two contemporaries, was still working hard to find ways to let his paintings move the human soul.  While in Paris he was very much influenced by Joan Miró – clearly to be seen in depicted painting with the geometric and organic shapes mixed.

Come and join us and witness the enormous development that took place in Kandinsky's art.

We have 15 places available.